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A Death in the Family is a Pulitzer-Prize winning heavily autobiographical novel by James Agee that was first published in 1957
. The novel treats Agee’s recollections of the death of his father and its aftermath in Knoxville, Tennessee, when he was six years old in 1915. Agee was finishing up the novel when he suddenly died of a heart attack in May 1955. David McDowell, Agee’s editor, then finalized the manuscript that was published two years later. A Death in the Family won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958.Read the full book summary, an in-depth character description of Rufus Follet, and explanations of important quotes from A Death in the Family.
